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body {font-size: 12pt; font-family: “tahoma”; } The Finnish Consumer Agency will launch a logo to be used on package travel documents and advertisements. The logo was designed closely with the travel industry in Finland and we hope it will be used on most of the package travels sold in Finland starting from this year. The […]

The Scottish Government has issued an order under the Criminal Procedure Act 1995 that will allow the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC) to release some of the details of the review of the al-Megrahi case. The SCCRC cannot reveal all of the details as the law requires the consent of all the parties involved.Following

Pan Am Flight 103 was blown up 31000 feet above the Scottish border town of Lockerbie on 21 December 1988. There were 259 people on board, including the crew, all of whom were killed together with 11 people on the ground.Two Libyans were indicted on 13 November 1991: Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi and Al Amin

Dear FriendsAt the IFTTA congress in Brazil I promised to update members on the Lockerbie legal issues in Scotland. Below, I have summarised the political and constitutional background to the case and in the next few days I will provide the latest update and a clarification on some matters.Please be patient with me while I

flyGlobespan was Scotland’s biggest airline, based in Edinburgh. It employed about 800 staff and carried more than 1.5 million passengers a year on 12000 flights. On its’ collapse, arrangements were made for the repatriation of 1100 passengers stranded abroad. These were passengers that had a flight with flyGlobespan as part of a package travel arrangement

The applicant company applied for a business permit to run a city tours coach service from fixed stopping points in accordance with a fixed time table. Municipality of Vienna at first instance denied the permit on the grounds that the service would economically endanger a competing company running a similar service and applicant had no

Approximately one out of ten flights that took off from airports in Brazil in 2009 was delayed over 30 minutes (limit considered acceptable by the Brazilian Airport Infrastructure – Infraero). Despite the still high average of 11%, the National Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC) said the airline industry in the country increased its efficiency, whereas in

To ensure quality and compliance with relevant other laws and regulations and promoting excellence in the hospitality sector, all new hotel, resort, and lodge projects in Kenya require to be licensed first, before commencing any construction, by a newly-inaugurated Hotel and Restaurant Authority.The authority will also embark on a nationwide exercise of grading and classification,

The Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention removed HIV infection from the list of diseases that prevent non-U.S. citizens from entering the country. The new regulation removes required testing for HIV infection from the U.S. immigration medical screening process and eliminates the need for a waiver for

Due to a new directive of the Transportation Security Administration airline passengers flying to the U.S. from 14 countries with terrorism problems will face extra checkpoint screening at overseas airports. The countries include Afghanistan, Algeria, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudia Arabia, Somalia and Yemen as well as Cuba, Iran, Sudan and Syria.The new directive